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Publications

Kramer, H.J., Goldfarb, D., Tashjian, S.M., & Lagattuta, K.H. (under review). What do I infer about you when I only know about them? Children and adults expect dichotomies when reasoning about different social groups.

Kramer, H.J., Wood, T., Lara, K.H., & Lagattuta, K.H. (invited revision). Children's and adults' beliefs about the stability of traits: Links to executive function. 

Lara, K.H., Kramer, H.J., & Lagattuta, K.H. (invited revision, resubmitted). This is not what I expected: The impact of prior expectations on children's and adults' preferences and emotions. 

Kramer, H.J. & Lagattuta, K.H. (in press). Developmental changes in emotion understanding during middle childhood. To appear in D.D. Dukes, E. Walle, & A.C. Samson, (Eds.), Oxford handbook on emotional development. Oxford University Press.

Lagattuta, K.H. & Kramer, H.J. (in press). Advanced theory of mind in middle childhood and adulthood. To appear in S. Lecce & R.T. Devine (Eds.), Theory of mind in middle childood and adolescence: integrating multiple perspectives. 

2020

Kramer, H.J., Parra, L.A., Lara, K.H., Hastings, P.D., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2020). Consistency among social groups in judging emotions across time. Emotion, advanced online publication.

2019

Lagattuta, K.H., & Kramer, H.J. (2019). Advanced emotion understanding: Children's and adults' knowledge that minds generalize from prior emotion events. Emotion, advanced online publication.

Lara, K.H., Lagattuta, K.H., & Kramer, H.J. (2019). Is there a downside to anticipating the upside? Children's and adults' reasoning about how prior expectations shape future emotions. Child Development, 90, 1170-1184. [pdf]

2018

Bouffard, N., Stokes, J., Kramer, H.J., & Ekstrom, A.D. (2018). Temporal encoding strategies result in boosts to free recall performance comparable to spatial ones. Memory and Cognition, 46, 17-31. [pdf]

Kramer, H.J., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2018). Affective forecasting. In M. Bornstein, M.E. Arterberry, K. .L. Fingerman, & J.E. Lansford (Eds.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan human development (71-72) New York: Sage. [pdf]

Lagattuta, K.H., Tashjian, S.M., & Kramer, H.J. (2018). Does the past shape anticipation for the future? Contributions of age and executive function to advanced theory of mind.  Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 226, 122-133. [pdf]

2017

Goldfarb, D., Lagattuta, K.H., Kramer, H.J., Kennedy, K., & Tashjian, S.M. (2017). When your kind cannot live here: How generic language and criminal sanctions shape social categorization. Psychological Science, 28, 1597-1609. [pdf]

Kramer, H.J., Goldfarb, D., Tashjian, S.M., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2017). "These pretzels are making me thirsty": Older children and adults struggle with induced-state episodic foresight. Child Development, 88, 1554-1562. [pdf]

Lagattuta, K.H., & Kramer, H.J. (2017). Try to look on the bright side: Children and adults can (sometimes) override their tendency to prioritize negative faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 89-101. [pdf]

Lagattuta, K.H., *Elrod, N.M., & *Kramer, H.J. (2016). How do thoughts, emotions, and decisions align. A new way to measure theory of mind in middle childhood and beyond. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149, 116-133. *Equal author contribution. [pdf]

Kramer, H.J., Lagattuta, K.H., & Sayfan, L. (2015). Why is happy-sad more difficult? Focal emotional information impairs inhibitory control in children and adults. Emotion, 15, 61-72. [pdf]

Lagattuta, K.H., Kramer, H.J., Kennedy, K., Hjortsvang, K., Goldfarb, D., & Tashjian, S.M. (2015). Beyond Sally's missing marble: Further development in children's understanding of mind and emotion during middle childhood. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 48, 185-217. [pdf] 

2015

2016

Publications

Under Review

Rylander, R., Kramer, H. J., Taylor, L. K., & Dautel, J. (in revision). Parents, childcare staff, and unfamiliar observers have different perceptions of children’s playfulness.

Wu, Y., Kramer, H. J., & Lagattuta, K. H. (under review). Anticipated emotions in interpersonal contexts: Perspective taking, social relationships, and cultural orientation.

2024

Kramer, H.J., Lara, K. H., Gweon, H., Zaki, J., Miramontes, M. & Lagattuta, K. H. (2024). This too shall pass, but when? Children's and adults' beliefs about the time duration of emotions, desires, and preferences. Child Development, online first.

Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J., Miramontes, M., Wu, Y. J., & Lara, K. H. (2024) Children’s understanding of mind and emotion: Implications for mental health. In A. Samson, D. Sander, & U. Kramer (Eds.), Change in emotion and mental health. Elsevier.

Weisman, K., Ghossainy, M. E., Williams, A. J., Payir, A., Lesage, K. A., Reyes-Jaquez, B., Amin, T. G., Anggoro, F. K., Burdett, E. R. R., Chen, E. E., Coetzee, L., Coley, J. D., Dahl, A., Dautel, J. B., Davis, H. E., Davis, E. L., Diesendruck, G., Evans, D., Feeney, A., Gurven, M., Jee, B. D., Kramer, H. J., Kushnir, T., McAuliffe, K., McLaughlin, A., Nichols, S., Rockers, P. C., Shneidman, L., Srinivasan, M., Tarullo, A. R., Taylor, L, K., Yu, Y., Yucel, M., Zhao, X., Corriveau, K. H., & Richert, R. A. (2024). The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network. PloS One, 19, e0292755.

2022

Kramer, H.J. & Lagattuta, K.H. (2022). Developmental changes in emotion understanding during middle childhood. In D.D. Dukes, E. Walle, & A.C. Samson, (Eds.), Oxford handbook on emotional development (pp. 157-173). Oxford University Press.

Kramer, H.J., Parra, L.A., Lara, K.H., Hastings, P.D., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2022). Consistency among social groups in judging emotions across time. Emotion, 22, 880-893.

Lagattuta, K.H. & Kramer, H.J. (2022). Theory of mind and moral cognition: Developmental changes in integrating mental states and moral judgments. To appear in K. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (3rd Ed, 305-320). Psychology Press.

2021

Kramer, H.J., Goldfarb, D., Tashjian, S.M., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2021). Dichotomous thinking about social groups: Learning about one group can activate opposite beliefs about another group. Cognitive Psychology, 129, 101408.

Kramer, H.J., Wood, T., Lara, K.H., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2021). Children's and adults' beliefs about the stability of traits: Links to executive function. Cognitive Development, 57, 100975.

Lagattuta, K.H. & Kramer, H.J. (2021). Advanced theory of mind in middle childhood and adulthood. In S. Lecce & R.T. Devine (Eds.), Theory of mind in middle childhood and adolescence: integrating multiple perspectives. 

Lagattuta, K.H., & Kramer, H.J. (2021). Advanced emotion understanding: Children's and adults' knowledge that minds generalize from prior emotion events. Emotion, 21, 1-16.

Lara, K.H., Kramer, H.J., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2021). This is not what I expected: The impact of prior expectations on children's and adults' preferences and emotions. Developmental Psychology, 57, 702-717.

2019

Lara, K.H., Lagattuta, K.H., & Kramer, H.J. (2019). Is there a downside to anticipating the upside? Children's and adults' reasoning about how prior expectations shape future emotions. Child Development, 90, 1170-1184. [pdf]

2018

Bouffard, N., Stokes, J., Kramer, H.J., & Ekstrom, A.D. (2018). Temporal encoding strategies result in boosts to free recall performance comparable to spatial ones. Memory and Cognition, 46, 17-31. [pdf]

Kramer, H.J., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2018). Affective forecasting. In M. Bornstein, M.E. Arterberry, K. .L. Fingerman, & J.E. Lansford (Eds.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan human development (71-72) New York: Sage. [pdf]

Lagattuta, K.H., Tashjian, S.M., & Kramer, H.J. (2018). Does the past shape anticipation for the future? Contributions of age and executive function to advanced theory of mind.  Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 226, 122-133. [pdf]

2017

Goldfarb, D., Lagattuta, K.H., Kramer, H.J., Kennedy, K., & Tashjian, S.M. (2017). When your kind cannot live here: How generic language and criminal sanctions shape social categorization. Psychological Science, 28, 1597-1609. [pdf]

Kramer, H.J., Goldfarb, D., Tashjian, S.M., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2017). "These pretzels are making me thirsty": Older children and adults struggle with induced-state episodic foresight. Child Development, 88, 1554-1562. [pdf]

Lagattuta, K.H., & Kramer, H.J. (2017). Try to look on the bright side: Children and adults can (sometimes) override their tendency to prioritize negative faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 89-101. [pdf]

Lagattuta, K.H., *Elrod, N.M., & *Kramer, H.J. (2016). How do thoughts, emotions, and decisions align. A new way to measure theory of mind in middle childhood and beyond. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149, 116-133. *Equal author contribution. [pdf]

Kramer, H.J., Lagattuta, K.H., & Sayfan, L. (2015). Why is happy-sad more difficult? Focal emotional information impairs inhibitory control in children and adults. Emotion, 15, 61-72. [pdf]

Lagattuta, K.H., Kramer, H.J., Kennedy, K., Hjortsvang, K., Goldfarb, D., & Tashjian, S.M. (2015). Beyond Sally's missing marble: Further development in children's understanding of mind and emotion during middle childhood. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 48, 185-217. [pdf] 

2015

2016

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